Arts & Architecture  /  Film & Media
Documenting Ourselves Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 336
ISBN: 9780813109343
Pub Date: 24 Dec 1997
Illustrations: illus
Description:
Since Robert Flaherty's landmark film Nanook of the North (1922) arguments have raged over whether or not film records of people and traditions can ever be "authentic." And yet never before has a single volume combined documentary, ethnographic, and folkloristic filmmaking to explore this controversy.What happens when we turn the camera on ourselves?
Hollywood As Historian Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 304
ISBN: 9780813109510
Pub Date: 18 Dec 1997
Description:
Motion picture images have influenced the American mind since the earliest days of film, and many thoughtful people are becoming ever more concerned about that influence, as about the pervasive influence of television. In eras of economic instability and international conflict, the film industry has not hesitated to use motion pictures for definite propaganda purposes. During less troubled times, the American citizen's ability to deal with political and social issues has been enhanced or thwarted by images absorbed in the nation's theatres.
Movies About the Movies Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 264
ISBN: 9780813109381
Pub Date: 18 Dec 1997
Illustrations: illus
Description:
Hundreds of Hollywood-on-Hollywood movies can be found throughout the history of American cinema, from the days of silents to the present. They include films from genres as far ranging as musical, film noir, melodrama, comedy, and action-adventure. Such movies seduce us with the promise of revealing the reality behind the camera.
Beyond Document Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 396
ISBN: 9780819562906
Pub Date: 31 May 1996
Illustrations: 24 illus. Fig.
Description:
In essays by eleven of America's foremost writers, critics, and filmmakers, Beyond Document explores the full spectrum of nonfiction film and its creative possibilities. In addition to Charles Warren's broad introductory history of the genre, the book takes a close look at ethnographic films, cinema-verité, memoir and autobiography, docudramas, essay films, and newsreels, from classics like Night and Fog and Nanook of the North to more recent important work like Film about a Woman Who. .
Women Politicians and the Media Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 248
ISBN: 9780813108698
Pub Date: 15 Feb 1996
Illustrations: illus
Description:
All American politicians face the glare of media coverage, both in running for office and in representing their constituents if elected. But for women seeking or holding high public office, as Maria Braden demonstrates, the scrutiny by newspapers and television can be both withering and damaging -- a fact that has changed little over the decades despite the emergence of more women in politics and more women in the news media.Particularly disturbing is the fact that the increase in the number of women reporters appears to have had little effect on the way women candidates are portrayed in the media.
Paper Bullets Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 304
ISBN: 9780813119298
Pub Date: 02 Nov 1995
Illustrations: illus
Description:
The calculated use of media by those in power is a phenomenon dating back at least to the seventeenth century, as Harold Weber demonstrates in this illuminating study of the relation of print culture to kingship under England's Charles II. Seventeenth-century London witnessed an enormous expansion of the print trade, and with this expansion came a revolutionary change in the relation between political authority -- especially the monarchy -- and the printed word.Weber argues that Charles' reign was characterized by a particularly fluid relationship between print and power.
Mike Barry and the Kentucky Irish American Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 184
ISBN: 9780813118987
Pub Date: 14 Jul 1995
Illustrations: illus
Description:
The Kentucky Irish American began life in 1898 as one of many ethnic newspapers in America, but by its final years it attracted an avid national audience of many ethnicities. From 1925, the KIA was owned and edited by the Barry family of Louisville: by John J. Barry to 1950, and by his son Michael to its demise in 1968.
Media And Revolution Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 256
ISBN: 9780813118994
Pub Date: 23 Feb 1995
Illustrations: illus
Description:
As television screens across America showed Chinese students blocking government tanks in Tiananmen Square, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and missiles searching their targets in Baghdad, the connection between media and revolution seemed more significant than ever. In this book, thirteen prominent scholars examine the role of the communication media in revolutionary crises -- from the Puritan Revolution of the 1640s to the upheaval in the former Czechoslovakia.Their central question: Do the media in fact have a real influence on the unfolding of revolutionary crises?
The Voice of the Frontier Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 424
ISBN: 9780813118017
Pub Date: 28 Mar 1993
Description:
From 1826 to 1829, John Bradford, founder of Kentucky's first newspaper, the Kentucky Gazette, reprinted in its pages sixty-six excerpts that he considered important documents on the settlement of the West. Now for the first time all of Bradford's Notes on Kentucky -- the primary historical source for Kentucky's early years -- are made available in a single volume, edited by the state's most distinguished historian.The Kentucky Gazette was established in 1787 to support Kentucky's separation from Virginia and the formation of a new state.
The Guardian Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 832
ISBN: 9780813114224
Pub Date: 31 Dec 1982
Description:
In 1713, soon after publication of the Spectator had come to an end, its place on breakfast tables of Queen Anne's London was taken by the Guardian. Richard Steele, continuing in the new paper the blend of learning, wit, and moral instruction that had proved so attractive in the Tatler and Spectator, was the editor and principal writer; in the 175 numbers of the Guardian he included 53 essays by Joseph Addison, as well as contributions by Alexander Pope, George Berkeley, and several others, some of whom doubtless transmitted their papers through the famous lion's head letterbox that Addison had erected in Button's coffeehouse. "These papers," as John C.
The Autonomous Image Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 192
ISBN: 9780813114064
Pub Date: 31 Dec 1981
Description:
Blowup, says Armando Prats, is one of the necessary movies. It is a "living expression of the transition into the new narrative domains" in terms of man's "new vision of himself as a narrative creature in a world whose very essense is cinematic narration." Prats' work on the new humanism inherent in postwar filmmaking is a rewarding work with implications for the fields of esthetics and axiology as well as film criticism.